PvP-centric sub-based MMO/MOBA hybrid EverFeud launches Kickstarter tomorrow
Gotta love a friendly tweet in the morning that reminds me about a game I'd forgotten about! I'm talking about EverFeud, a game we...
Chinese MMO company NetEase invests $50M into SpatialOS MMO platform
Improbable's SpatialOS is moving on up in the world: The company announced this week that China's NetEase has invested $50 million to acquire a...
PUBG’s Brendan Greene discusses Steam numbers, Fortnite, and dealing with toxicity
PUBG's Brendan Greene did an interesting interview with RPS last week with some quotes worth highlighting. For starters, he has an interesting take on the...
The Daily Grind: Do you care more about an MMORPG’s playerbase or revenue?
SuperData put out a couple of reports and analyses last week that suggest Fortnite is "cannibalizing" other games, specifically in terms of revenue and...
God Eater Online is shutting down in September
Sadly, it does not seem that God Eater Online really talks much about the experience of turning deific entities into snacks. If you were...
Make My MMO: Camelot’s beta one, Fractured’s successful Kickstarter (July 29, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, anti-grind, PvP-optional MMO sandbox Fractured became the biggest traditional MMORPG to fund on Kickstarter this year (Temtem pulled in more cash...
Space survival game ROKH has suspended development
Following ROKH's early access debut in May 2017, the space survival game faced significant obstacles. It got bogged down in a legal dispute last fall...
Riot’s Marc Merrill was just joking about a League of Legends MMO
It's always good to know that this genre that we love and enjoy can be the butt of the games industry's jokes. Last week,...
Betawatch: Fallout 76 starts beta testing in October (July 27, 2018)
Good news for those of you patiently (or not-so-patiently) waiting for Fallout 76 to enter beta testing, you have a date! Slightly worse news,...
EA would like a slice of that sweet, sweet battle royale pie, please
EA is still eyeing battle royale, but maybe not the way you're thinking. During the company's quarterly investor call this week, everyone clearly had Fortnite...
CCP has obliquely confirmed it’s working on a brand-new ‘action MMO’
Remember back in December, when the gaming world noticed that CCP's hiring page sought a lead designer to run "a new and highly ambitious...
Blizzard and Riot attended the International Olympic Committee’s e-sports summit this past weekend
Over the last year, we've seen a ramp-up of high-level chatter about bringing e-sports to the Olympics. Last summer the co-president of the Paris Olympic...
StarCraft II celebrates its anniversary with portraits and base celebration
It's been eight years since the launch of StarCraft II, which is cause for celebration due to the... amazing competitive gaming moments? That's what...
Dota 2 apes Path of Exile with transparent lockboxes for Dutch players
Remember when the Dutch gaming authorities effectively threatened to prosecute prosecute companies like Valve for vending and trading lockboxes the government agencies considered a...
Previewing Rend: Frostkeep studio visit, early access, PvP, factions, and more
If something goes wrong with Frostkeep's early access launch of Rend, blame me. While I was at the office, I distracted Co-Founders Jeremy Wood and...
PUBG had a great June thanks to the Steam sale, SuperData says in its latest revenue ranking
SuperData's global revenue report for June 2018 is out, and it's actually not particularly exciting for the summer months as not that much has...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds details a five-year plan for e-sports
Does it fill you with warm, fuzzy feelings to know that there's a nice long-term plan for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to chase that sweet e-sports...
MMORPG sandbox Fractured’s Kickstarter has just fully funded at over $130,000
Phew! A few weeks ago, I was not confident that Fractured's Kickstarter was going to make it, but it cleared its goal with just...
SuperData suggests Fortnite is ‘cannibalizing’ top online games as Epic’s value reaches $14B
Last week, SuperData released a thinkpiece on how Fortnite isn't necessarily destroying the rest of the gaming industry, but hold up because this week...
Riot co-founder asks the Twitterverse whether it should build an MMO
In today's installment of Was This A Joke Or Not Theater, it seems that the co-founder of Riot Games (maker of League of Legends,...
